Age: unknown
Sex: male
Date: 24 Jun 1919
Place: HMS Resolution, Scapa Flow
Kuno Eversberg was shot on the HMS Resolution at Scapa Flow. A man was tried for his murder but a verdict of Not Proven was returned.
The shot had come through the forecastle deck. After the shooting a search was made and no one was found near where the shot had come from but a rifle was later found.
Shortly after the ship went into Invergordon to refit and when it did about ten men did not return. Later the man tried was arrested as a deserter at Leglands and was charged with the murder.
Kuno Eversberg had been a German prisoner of war.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Dundee Courier - Tuesday 10 February 1920
see Dundee Evening Telegraph - Tuesday 10 February 1920
see National Records of Scotland - AD15/20/4
see Unsolved 1919